When you have to wait a lot before skating, you tend to become more and more nervous (I can tell you this basing on my personal experience ), so the skaters that are the strongest mentally (or the luckiest) will win, I think...

They landed two sbs triples!! They were not bad at all for me! They made a couple of bad mistakes but I think they have the potential and I actually liked them artistically, too: at least they're not another Chinese pair skating to classical music with balletic movements copying the Hongbo and Zhao programs! The fact that the Ukrainians received a 38 PCS vs their 35 is really strange for me, I really think that Lavrentieva/Rudik were actually really terrible artistically! But that's my own opinion, as always...